QOTD: "BLM thrives on these unfortunate incidents and seeks to sensationalize every negative interaction with police as proving systemic racism. And why shouldn’t they? They’ve got the ear of the most powerful man in the world. President Obama is quick to confirm racism as the motive. On speaking after the Dallas shooting Obama said these incidents of arrest involving fatal police shootings are “symptomatic of larger racial disparities in America particularly within the justice department.” Obama is only too happy to assign bad behavior on the part of a handful of cops to all cops, on the part of one white person anywhere to all white people everywhere.

I think the solution is really as simple as this: Quit lying about every negative interaction blacks have with police. Not everything is about race. Once BLM and others who think like them rein in their exploitive rhetoric then we can start to have a respectful dialogue. So long as they insist that all cops are racist, and by extension all whites are racist, they are contributing to an increasingly incendiary atmosphere that builds walls, that legitimizes an environment where angry people feel justified in murdering police officers." --Jenny North